Four Treatises on the Interior Life from St. Alphonsus Liguori
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Talking with God contains four of St. Alphonsus Liguori’s works detailing the mysteries of the interior life: “The Way to Converse with God,” “A Short Treatise on Prayer,” “Mental Prayer,” and “The Presence of God.”
Within these works, St. Alphonsus stresses the importance of the inner life; the ease with which we can converse with God; on how the eternal truths are revealed to us; the absolute necessity of prayer, and how all is eventually lost without prayer. He directs us as to how to talk with God; explains how God answers us; how God listens to the prayers of everyone, and shows us how to continually have God’s Presence with us throughout our day. St. Alphonsus authored more than one hundred books on spirituality and theology over his lifetime. Many were written during the half-hours he snatched between his labors as missionary, religious superior, and Bishop. St. Alphonsus was canonized in 1839, and declared a Doctor of the Church in 1871.
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